As senior standards strategist for Adobe Systems‚ Duane Nickull is responsible for managing Adobe participation in OASIS and UN/CEFACT as well as ensuring that Adobe enterprise solutions support emerging XML standards. Previously‚ Mr. Nickull co-founded Yellow Dragon Software Corporation‚ a privately held developer of XML messaging and metadata management software recently acquired by Adobe.

Mr. Nickull has served as the project team lead of the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) eBusiness Architecture Group a technical advisor to the UN/CEFACT OASIS Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) and a specially appointed liaison between the W3C‚ UN and OASIS standards consortiums. Additionally‚ Duane has served as the chair for the United Nations Electronic Business Working Group a direct sub-group of CEFACT TMG. He also has served as the Co-lead of the ebXML Technical Architecture group as well as co-editor of that specification starting in 1999.

Prior to 2003‚ Duane worked for XML Global Technologies‚ a company he co-founded. He was a co-inventor of the first Context-sensitive XML Search Engine (www.goxml.com) and the first web based XML E-Commerce ASP. He is named on and was responsible for most of the 51 points covered on patents pertaining to XML indexing and retrieval. He also served as Technical Director for XSLT.com. He lives in Vancouver, Canada and actively snowboards and mountain bikes.